Dan Fogler Accidentally Reveals Fantastic Beasts Spoilers

In a new interview from CinemaCon, Dan Fogler accidentally lets slip some spoilers for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.

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One of the very curious things I have been wondering since the plot synopsis of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was revealed is where does Jacob Kowalski come from? How does he get mixed up in all this? I had thought, up until then that it would be Newt who was our audience surrogate, someone who knows the UK Wizarding World, suddenly plopped down in a new culture in the US. But then suddenly we have this muggle, err, no-maj, who also seems to be an audience surrogate, to the world of magic in general. How do he and Newt meet?

And once the trailer came out, I was even more confused. They’re rooming together? Newt is doing spells in front of Jacob? He’s inviting him down into the case? What is happening?

Well, wonder no more! A new video from last week’s CinemaCon has emerged of Dan Fogler talking to the foreign press–and he gets very detailed in describing the plot, including how he and Newt meet, and how he becomes involved with the world of magic. Spoilers ahoy!

So to recap:

• Jacob and Newt literally bump into each other and switch cases, like the plot of a 1920 silent comedy film
• Jacob gets bitten by one of the creatures–a healing potion might be what we’re seeing Newt makes in that trailer, when Jacob walks in to the kitchen area.
• They’re rooming together because Newt doesn’t want to let Jacob just go away–he feels responsible and wants to make sure he’s healed up properly
• Newt is in NYC to “buy a gift.” Oh really?

That last bit is very interesting, because if you remember a while back, J.K. Rowling posted in her Twitter header pages from working on Fantastic Beasts. And on the script page we saw the following:

“The heart wants what it wants!”  —> woman in magical… t shop selling Newt the… e-bred American puffskein for… his capricious, brain-dead….rlfriend” (not really–he…. both completing)

So is Newt in America to buy a pure-bred American puffskein for a his girlfriend? Or someone who is sort of his girlfriend, but not really? “The heart wants what it wants!” Sounds like someone is using Newt to get this pure-bred puffskein, without thinking much about the consequences. J. K. Rowling’s description of her as “capricious” and “brain-dead” isn’t very flattering, that’s for certain.

But that Newt might think of himself as being in a semi-relationship with someone unsuitable will certainly put a blockade in the way of him and Tina Goldstein getting together right away. One of the issues with them as a couple is that fact that the Potterhead audience knows they are fated to marry–and their grandson will marry Luna Lovegood a century later. Finding a way to keep them apart, at least for the first movie, would make sense. Perhaps part of the reason this is a trilogy will be because Newt goes home to England without Tina, only to realize the mistake he’s made?